[CPCC] Talk on Network Advance Scheduling, Nasir Ghani, Friday 2 PM

Ender Ayanoglu ayanoglu at uci.edu
Mon Mar 5 11:54:56 PST 2012


                                    TALK

            Advance Reservation Scheduling for Emerging Applications

                              Dr. Nasir Ghani
              Associate Professor & Associate Department Chair
 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico
          http://ece.unm.edu/~nghani, http://ece.unm.edu/acl

                                   ABSTRACT

The last decade has seen numerous advances in networking technologies and
services.  For example, ubiquitous IP and Ethernet networks (Layers 2, 3)
have scaled rapidly to support multi-gigabit speeds with full quality of
service (QoS) provisions. Concurrently, developments in optical wavelength
division multiplexing (WDM) technologies have revolutionized the
fiber-optic layer (Layer 1), delivering flexible wavelength circuit
connectivity with terabits/fiber yields.  As these technologies have
matured, many carriers have actively built out state-of-the-art
cyberinfrastructures to support new distributed service paradigms, i.e.,
cloud and grid computing, high-performance computing, storage extension,
virtual private networks, etc.  In particular, researchers within the
scientific community are actively leveraging these new services to support
massive data transfer and processing capabilities across extended
national/global distances, trending towards the exascale.  However, these
new evolutions are placing huge burdens on network resource provisioning,
and even the most scalable backbones may not be able to handle all demands
in an on-line manner. It is here that the concept of network advance
reservation (AR) is becoming increasingly important.  Namely, this
approach lets users reserve connections at future time instants, i.e., via
network scheduling, thereby allowing operators to stagger demands and
improve resource assignments.  Along these lines this talk will survey
this exciting new field and outline several important research directions.
Some refined AR scheduling schemes will also be presented to improve
carried load (revenues) and resource efficiencies. Finally, networking
control plane extensions will be detailed to extend these theoretical
schemes across distributed real-world settings. Overall, AR services will
have broad-based applicability for many emerging commercial applications.

                               BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Nasir Ghani is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of New
Mexico.  He is currently involved in a wide range of research activities,
and his focus interests include cyberinfrastructure design,
cloud/grid-computing, system survivability, and knowledge-based systems.
He has published close to 50 journal papers and over 100 conference
papers, along with several book chapters.  In addition he has several
well-cited US patents. Overall, Dr. Ghani's research has been funded by
some key agencies (including the National Science Foundation, Department
of Energy, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency) as well as industrial
sponsors. Most notably, he received the NSF CAREER award in 2005 for his
work in multi-domain network design. Prior to joining academia, he spent
over 8 years in industry and held key technical positions at several large
companies (Nokia, Motorola, IBM) and start-up organizations (Sorrento
Networks, Array Systems Computing). Dr. Ghani has also been involved in a
wide range of outreach and technical community service activities. For
example he chaired the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High Speed
Networks (TCHSN) from 2008-2010 and has also served as a symposium
co-chair for IEEE Globecom (2006, 2010), IEEE ICC (2006, 2011), and IEEE
ICCCN (2011). He also helped build a successful high-speed networking
workshop series for the flagship IEEE INFOCOM conference and has served on
numerous invited NSF, DOE, and international panels.  In addition, he has
guest-edited special issues of several high-profile publications,
including IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, and Cluster
Computing. Currently he is an associate editor for the IEEE Systems and
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials journals and in the past has also
served on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters (2002-2011).
Dr. Ghani is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been a faculty advisor
for the Etta Kappa Nu honor society. He received his Bachelors degree in
Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, his Masters degree
in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, and his Ph.D. degree
in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Host: Ender Ayanoglu


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